"At face value, the ADP report suggests the Fed was right to
delay the tapering of its monthly asset purchases last month,"
said Capital Economics' Paul Ashworth. "But most of the other
recent evidence on the labour market has been more upbeat.
Initial jobless claims are still close to 300,000 and yesterday
we learned that the ISM manufacturing employment index
strengthened further in September. There is now clearly more
downside risk to our above consensus forecast that non-farm
payrolls increased by 220,000 last month. But given the ADP
survey's patchy record, particularly based on the initial
estimates, we're not ready to revise that non-farm payrolls
forecast down."

Here's a breakdown by size:

Small businesses (1-49 employees) +74,000

Medium businesses (50-499 employees) +28,000

Large businesses (500 or more employees) +64,000

Small businesses (1-49 employees) +74,000

Medium businesses (50-499 employees) +28,000

Large businesses (500 or more employees) +64,000

- See more at:
http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/2013/September/NER/NER-September-2013.aspx#sthash.SDmtbM3P.dpuf

Small businesses (1-49 employees) +74,000

Medium businesses (50-499 employees) +28,000

Large businesses (500 or more employees) +64,000

- See more at:
http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/2013/September/NER/NER-September-2013.aspx#sthash.SDmtbM3P.dpuf

Small businesses (1-49 employees) +74,000

Medium businesses (50-499 employees) +28,000

Large businesses (500 or more employees) +64,000

- See more at:
http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/2013/September/NER/NER-September-2013.aspx#sthash.SDmtbM3P.dpuf

Here's a breakdown by industry:

Construction 16,000

Manufacturing 1,000

Trade/transportation/utilities 54,000

Financial activities -4,000

Professional/business services 27,000

At this point, thanks to the government shutdown the Bureau of
Labor Statistics will not be publishing the official jobs report
on Friday. As such, the economy-watching world will be
focused on the ADP's alternative.

This chart from ADP shows just how good it really is as a proxy:

ADP

"[T]here has been a growing case for the ADP report to get more
attention than it did in the past; its reliability seems to have
improved since Moody’s replaced Macroeconomic Advisers as the
compiler of the data late last year,"
said High Frequency Economics' Jim O'Sullivan. "ADP’s
misses have averaged 38K—without regard to sign—in the 11 months
since Moody’s took over, down from 63K in the previous 11 months.
Of course, that is just an average. Misses have ranged from
-63K—with payrolls weaker than ADP—to +57K—with payrolls stronger
than ADP. Last month’s miss was -24K, with the ADP series up 176K
and private payrolls in the BLS report up 152K; total payrolls
rose 169K."